2024: Started all 14 games on the defensive line ... finished the year with 29 tackles (12 solo) and was credited with three sacks and 4.5 TFLs ... also added two quarterback hurries on the year ... recorded five tackles, a half sack and 1.5 TFLs in a road win at North Alabama ... posted four tackles and a sack in a win over Youngstown State ... had a sack and two tackles in a win over Eastern Illinois ... also had five tackles and a half TFL in a win at UNI.

2023: Saw action in all 11 games on the defensive line ... finished the year with 13 tackles, including two solo stops ... had three tackles a half sack in the season-opening win over Dayton ... tallied three tackles and a half sack against UNI ... followed that up with half sack in the win at Missouri State.

2022: Saw action in two games on the defensive line ... recorded lone tackle of the season in a win over Eastern Illinois.

2021 (fall): Redshirted.

Marysville HS: Two-year starter for head coach Brent Johnson … earned honorable mention honors following senior season, after helping team to a conference championship and the second round of the state playoffs ... played in 11 games as a junior in 2019, earning scholar-athletes honors as the team advanced to the first round of the playoffs and shared a conference title … multi-sport letterwinner, also completing on the basketball court and the track.

Personal: Born August 9, 2002 in Marysville, Ohio ... son of Andrew and Valerie Kessler … has an older brother, Anthony, who plays football at Ashland University … his uncle, Tony Pannunzio, played cornerback at Youngstown State and his great uncle, Arthur DeCarlo, played football at Georgia and later was drafted by Pittsburgh Steelers … four-year scholar athlete.